I have known of the executive officers monitoring Facebook, Twitter, etc. The chapter is divided up between the ex. officers, and they take care of business.

I found this blog today which is sponsored by one of the sorority stores in Austin. It appears that it could be helpful to new PNM's!
Registration is now over 1100, which is slightly over last year. I believe that registration closes this coming Monday, August 12th.

http://sororitysource.tumblr.com/

The chapter I help advise does this. They have a pseudonym FB user name who will reply to posts that are inappropriate, as a way to notify the member without obviously alerting non-members who may see the post. This has actually been a good deterrent...we don't have a big problem with this.

I love how fake names keep having new things to do as our world changes...from deterring guys in bars to telling Sister Sondra to stop acting like a damn hobag. LOL

Registration closed on Monday with 1217 PNM's registered! Formal Recruitment starts one week from today! Good luck to those going through recruitment this year at UT and remember that keeping an open mind will ensure a more successful experience...all 14 chapters are amazing..you honestly CANNOT go wrong with any chapter at UT!

Hook-em!

Getting Close....PNMs who are in dorms move in tomorrow and convocation starts at 5:00PM tomorrow! Get excited!

Pictures are up on Facebook
 

https://www.facebook.com/UTAustinSFL

Pictures from the last few days are up.

Didn't want to hijack AndysToys thread (which is EPIC and I can't wait to hear the end of...but...)

Has anyone heard rumblings of quota? Bids come out at 5pm today!

Quota
 

Quota is 70. Underclassman 54, Upperclassman 16. (These are prelim numbers)

Do most chapters take all of the upperclass quota?

Do we know when bid day festivities are set to begin?

Right after they pick up bids! Fun, fun!!

Sorry, missed that post :)

Oh sorry, wasn't trying to be in-your-facey about it! I'm just excited!

On a detour:

In general (not treading on membership selection), why would a chapter not utilize the upperclassmen quota?

Because they're not extending any bids to upperclassmen, the reason, why or rational behind those decisions however would all fall under MS and be specific to each individual chapter.

When on earth would they do that? Asking them to make that decision too early is impinging on membership selection, not to mention they don't know from day to day who's coming back and who's not. Plus, word would get around and it would be like another version of the girls who are trying to get out of pledging the more expensive sororities.

It really suprises me that quota is this small :( It seems that early cuts were so harsh... I just don't understand why the new mwmber classes are not a lot larger.

That is a few off of last year even though there were more girls registered. I think this shows where RFM is a bit of a guessing game. They might ease off a smidge next year. But it could also be by intention... wanting to keep quotas under control?

Quota was smaller than last year but please don't forget 14 chapters were participating in formal recruitment this year instead of 13.

Did the new chapter have a successful rush?

If every chapter took the full upperclass quota, approx 980 women received bids. (But we know a handful of chapter didn't do that.)
Conversely, some chapters had quota additions (though that does not make up for the chapters that didn't take full UQ).

If -- and this is just an estimation for mathematical purposes -- 900 women received bids out of 1217 registering, the percentage would be just under 74%.

Is that about the right % for UT?

With RFM this could end up in them getting seriously spanked. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Not to mention the other chapters would probably scream bloody murder at being designated "the upperclassmen chapters" and well they should.

Please post numbers if you have them:

Alpha Phi 77
AXO
Chi O
DG 70
Adpi 76
KD 76
DDD
KKG
SDT
AXD
Pi Phi
Theta
ZTA
AEPHI

I got these off of facebook so they might not be accurate..

A Xi D 72

DDD
 

DDD. 74.

Bumping for 2014 Recruitment..it's that time of year!:)

Bump for 2015..because Pinapple did such a great job of explaining what is the "FUN" of UT Recruitment! Good luck to this year's PNM's and their moms that have to live through it!:)

In answer to some of the remarks upthread about why quota seems small compared to the number of girls going through--it's because the sorority houses cannot accommodate too many more girls than they already have, and there is nowhere to expand the houses. Nobody wants the giant pledge classes that Bama and Auburn have, so they keep quota around 75. At some point they will have to think about extension, but that will be difficult for any new sorority, given the price of real estate in the Austin area and the total absence of available land to build a new house anyway.

Panhellenic raised house totals this year which is good. Almost all chapters added girls this Spring which was great... However it is not usually the case, so PNMs should not count on dropping out of recruitment in hopes of getting the chapter of their dreams in the Spring.
All chapters with the exception of 2 are at or near house totals now.

Actually, quota has nothing to do with the size of the houses at Texas. UT uses RFM, so quota is based on the number of women who sign their bid card on Pref night. If PNMs kept an open mind and wanted to be Greek at UT (aka - did not drop out when they were not invited back to their favorites) quota would be higher.

You can't "keep" quota at a certain number. It is the amount of women going through pref divided by the number of sororities ( over simplified for expediency). If you were referring to total, it can be set at a certain number, but considering UT guarantees a bid to women who have gotten to pref and maximized their options, quota additions come into play and total is somewhat of a moot point.

I mentioned total being raised because almost all of the chapters took "some" girls in the spring. Apparently there are rumors going around that UT now has Spring recruitment and I wanted to make it clear that this is the exception for last year and not the rule (only because house total was raised). PNMs SHOULD NOT count on Spring additions as a reason to drop out of formal Falll recruitment if they don't get their dream chapter.